Chapter 420 Find a Parent for Chicken Feather

"Ji Mao, is the water boiling? If it is, come here quickly and I will shave your head!"

Su Mingzhe held the razor and shouted to Ji Mao who was boiling water in the kitchen.

"Here I come, Brother Zhe."

When Ji Mao heard that he was going to have his head shaved, he ran over excitedly. He had lived in the mountains and forests for more than half a year, and his scalp had been itching for a long time.

Not only is my scalp itchy, but my hair is also greasy and stuck in clumps. Even washing it with boiling water won't wash it away.

Su Mingzhe shaved his head without giving him an apron. He just asked him to take off his shirt and wear only a pair of shorts. After the shaving, he took a bath with the mugwort leaves that he had prepared for him.

Su Mingzhe took the razor and slowly shaved the chicken feathers, then explained:

"Jimao, you just came out of the deep mountains and forests. I have to shave your head and apply some medicine powder on it. This will remove the bacteria and small insects in your scalp. Once the lice and mites on your body are gone, I can give you a flat head or a crew cut in the future."

"Ah."

Even though Ji Mao was a wild child before, he has a really good nature.

Not only does he work hard and never argue with Su Mingzhe's orders, he is also very well-behaved and sensible. When he comes to Su Mingzhe's house, he doesn't walk around or move around. He is the kind of good boy who will stand still unless he is told to.

Su Mingzhe naturally likes good children very much.

After a while, Su Mingzhe shaved Ji Mao's head bald.

Su Mingzhe asked Ji Mao to stand in the bathroom, and he boiled some water with mugwort leaves and brought it over.

"Wash yourself. Take a shower these days with hot water. Don't mind the heat. It can kill bacteria and remove toxins. After taking a shower, spread this powder on your body to prevent prickly heat."

Ji Mao took a proper bath, applied a layer of powder on himself, and then changed into Su Mingzhe's new clothes.

While Ji Mao was taking a bath, Su Mingzhe tidied up the east room where he slept.

Since I will be the head of the household in the future, it is natural for me to sleep in the master bedroom in the main hall.

I'll just give this east room to Ji Mao.

Even in the middle of summer, there was no need for bedding. We just carried the bamboo bed out to dry in the sun, and prepared two sets of clothes, shoes and socks for Ji Mao.

After a while, Ji Mao came out after taking a bath.

Su Mingzhe looked at the bald chicken feather in front of him and immediately laughed.

Ji Mao has a pair of squinting eyes with single eyelids, which he can't open wide no matter how hard he tries. However, he has a pretty face, and if he dresses up a little, people will believe that he is a girl.

"not bad."

Su Mingzhe looked at it for a while, and Ji Mao started to feel shy again, and then he laughed.

This boy not only looks like a girl, but he also blushes easily, which is also like a girl.

If I hadn't seen him peeing while standing, I would have thought I had picked up a girl.

"Jimao, you should follow me from now on. Recognize me as your big brother and you will be my little brother."

After Su Mingzhe said this, Ji Mao nodded quickly. He was really grateful to Su Mingzhe.

Last winter, if Su Mingzhe hadn't sent him meals for two months, Ji Mao didn't know whether he could survive that winter.

So, when Su Mingzhe said that he would accept him as his younger brother, Ji Mao quickly nodded in agreement:

"Yeah, big brother."

"Okay, since you have acknowledged me as your big brother, you can no longer use the nickname 'Jimao'. I will give you a real name."

As Su Mingzhe spoke, he began to feel troubled.

He was just bad at naming. When he was naming his children, he would always look up the Book of Songs, dictionaries, and Cihai.

Now that I have a younger brother, I can't call him 'Su Mingcheng'.

When Ji Mao heard that his new elder brother wanted to give him a name, he was stunned for a moment and quickly said, "Brother, I have a big name."

"Hmm? You have a big name?"

"Well, my last name is Chen, and my name is 'Chen Jianghe'."

"'Chen Jianghe'?"

Su Mingzhe was slightly stunned, and then his mind was like an explosion. This name was the name of the male protagonist in "Chicken Feathers Flying to the Sky".

Damn, Chen Jianghe’s nickname seems to be Jimao.

So, I picked up the male protagonist Chen Jianghe?

"Brother, isn't my name good?"

Chen Jianghe felt uneasy when he saw his elder brother was stunned when he heard his name.

But he knew that he still had a case on his hands.

What if my big brother hands me over to the police? I would then become a prisoner in a labor camp.

"No, your name is much better than Chicken Feather."

Su Mingzhe recovered and saw that Chen Jianghe looked uneasy, so he quickly comforted him, "Your name is very good, but if I want to register you, you can no longer have the surname Chen. You need to follow my surname Su. Do you think this is okay?"

Chen Jianghe was silent for a while, and he began to feel troubled.

Since childhood, under the education of his uncle Jinshui, he believed that a real man should not change his name or surname.

Now, Su Mingzhe asked him to change his surname, and he was naturally unwilling. However, just as Su Mingzhe said, the name Chen Jianghe would definitely not be used anymore because of the case.

In the face of Su Mingzhe's warm smile, Chen Jianghe finally nodded: "Brother, I'll listen to you."

"Okay. In that case, after we have dinner, I will take you to my uncle's house and have him take you to register your household registration."

Changing your surname when registering your household registration is not a big deal, but it is not a small matter either.

After all, Chen Jianghe is not young anymore.

However, this society is a society based on personal relationships, and many things are more easily tolerated outside the law.

Su Mingzhe first brought Chen Jianghe to his uncle Su Chaocheng's house. Su Chaocheng heard that Chen Jianghe was a wild child picked up by Su Mingzhe from the mountains, and saw that Chen Jianghe was good-looking and well-behaved. After thinking for a moment, he came up with an idea.

"Zhe Xiao (similar to Lu Xun's 'Xun Ge'), didn't your uncle Shan's second child fall to his death last year after climbing a tree? Let Jiang He take over the second child's household registration."

"Row."

Su Mingzhe knew that using someone else's name to do something was also a way to solve the problem, so he immediately agreed on behalf of Chen Jianghe.

Afterwards, Su Mingzhe asked Chen Jianghe to go home first, and he and Su Chaocheng went to Su Chaoshan's house to feel out the situation and see if they agreed.

Su Chaoshan’s biological father, Su Mutou, is Su Shitou’s biological brother, and Su Chaoshan is the biological cousin of Su Mingzhe’s father, Su Chaoqun.

This relationship is even closer than Su Chao's family.

When they arrived at Su Chaoshan's house, Su Mingzhe was the first to call out before he even entered the door: "Uncle Shan, Aunt Shan."

"Zhe Xiao is here, have you eaten yet?"

Aunt Shan responded from the kitchen.

Su Chaocheng and Su Mingzhe entered the kitchen.

Su Chaoshan and his family were having dinner. When they saw Su Chaocheng coming, they quickly stood up and greeted him:
"Brother Cheng, why are you here with Zhe Xiao?"

"I have something to discuss with you two."

As Su Chaocheng was speaking, he saw that Su Chaoshan's family of four were still eating, so he waved his hand and said:

"You guys eat first, and then we'll talk."

As soon as Su Chaoshan saw it, he knew that the matter might be quite important and it was not convenient for his two children to hear it. Seeing that the two children had almost finished eating, he sent them away.

Su Chaoshan's family lived in poor conditions. He originally had three sons and two daughters. Among them, the eldest son and the eldest daughter died of illness when they were two or three years old.

Erxiao also passed away last year. Now the couple is left with only two children: Sanxiao, who is five years old, and Erdaughter, who is three years old.

Seeing that all the children had been sent away, Su Chaoshan told Su Mingzhe about the wild child he picked up from the mountains.

"Zhe Xiao wants to take this child in. I've seen that he's really a good kid. Your Erxiao just passed away last year. Has his household registration been cancelled? If not, and if you're willing, the child will live with Zhe Xiao, but he'll treat you two as his real parents and provide for your retirement. What do you two think?"

After hearing this, Su Chaoshan and his wife said with embarrassment:

"Brother Cheng, we also want to agree to this, but the neighbors all know that our second child is gone, and now another one suddenly appears. We can't hide it."

"As long as you don't cancel your household registration, even if the neighbors know, few will say anything."

Seeing the couple in trouble, Su Chaocheng couldn't help but frowned and said:
"We can say that the child fell from a tree and got seriously ill, but was taken to another place by a wealthy relative for treatment, and now he is back after recovering from his illness."

After hesitating for a while, Su Chaoshan and his wife finally expressed their true thoughts.

Although the couple had urban household registration, they were the youngest children and did not inherit their parents' jobs.

More than ten years ago, when the workforce was being downsized, Su Chaoshan and his wife, who worked as temporary workers in the central factory, were also laid off.

After being fired as temporary workers, both of them could only live frugally and make a living by doing helpers and hard labor.

Later, when they had children, the family was poor and could not afford any nutritional supplements. The first two children were weak and sickly and died when they were two or three years old.

Six years ago, Su Mingzhe came to Pujiang and started hunting in the mountains. Every time he had a harvest, he would distribute it to the Su family members.

Thanks to this aid, Su Chaoshan's family was able to survive for a few more years and slowly raise their two sons and a daughter.

Last year, my second child climbed a tree out of mischief and accidentally fell from a dead branch and died on the spot.

After losing three children in a row, outsiders said that Su Chaoshan and his wife were destined to be childless, and that the two remaining children in the family would sooner or later encounter accidents.

As a person, you should be kind and righteous, and you should also know how to repay kindness.

Over the years, Su Mingzhe has sent various meats to Su Chaoshan's family every month to improve their lives.

If Su Mingzhe needed help in other areas, Su Chaoshan and his wife would put their own lives aside and go to help Su Mingzhe without hesitation.

However, Su Mingzhe wanted to raise the outside child under his own name. The couple were afraid that they were not lucky enough to raise a child and would harm the innocent child.

"Uncle Shan, Aunt Shan, you think too much."

Su Mingzhe and Su Chaocheng had never expected that the couple, who usually kept silent, actually cared so much about the rumors outside.

Su Chaocheng was so angry that he slammed the table and said, "Which bastard is so tired of living that he is gossiping like this?"

Su Chaoshan and his wife looked embarrassed, but did not answer.

The couple felt that they were incompetent, and even if they heard outsiders gossiping about them, they would pretend not to hear and would never tell these gossips to their fellow tribesmen.

However, when they wake up in the middle of the night, the couple will only complain to each other after they have an argument.

This couple is a typical group of incompetent and honest people. Even if their teeth are knocked out by others, they will swallow them along with the blood.

(End of this chapter)